Whoops......again

I had promised myself that I'd be better at blogging this year but I guess its time to admit defeat. When you end up doing two people's jobs plus all the parenting, cooking, housework and supposed educating, something has to give and at the moment its blogging, net surfing and reading. Pah.

February was another busy month, business greatly increased on Anara Toys, and Reward Board stock now running very low which is good as it means I will soon be able to close the current site and sort out the re-design and get new reward charts manufactured. The third website is getting closed to being launched, more dolls arrived for it last week but now have a bit of a wait for a ship from somewhere or other to bring the rest. Still need to source at least one more supplier before it can open and that is proving difficult.

I don't know what we did in February but on Sunday we went to London Zoo, which was a very long and tiring but great day. Got up at 7.30am, which neither Charlie nor I were that impressed with and made the first train to London at 9.00am. Tube'd over to Camden Town and had a pleasant sunny but windy walk to the Zoo.

Had a lovely time with friends with a 10 year old girl and 14 year old boy. Charlie and the girl ran off and were instant best friends, but Fran has nothing to worry about as he told me yesterday that X was really nice, but not as nice or beautiful as Fran!

Being there bought home just how easily led astray Charlie is, as he wandered off into the gift shop with X without coming and telling me where he is going. Honestly, he really will do almost anything any other child tells him to! We had words about that when we got home.

We were kicked out as the Zoo closed and made it home at 7.30pm exhausted!

In other news, my dad is allowing me to borrow his Smart car when he doesn't need to, which means I drive with my hood up a lot so no-one recognises me! Only joking.

Bev moved to Oxford on Tuesday as she has a new job there so this is good news for Charlie as she will start seeing him regularly at the weekends when she can. He is very pleased about it all.

Charlie started Scouts two weeks ago which he is loving, loving, loving. I'm amused each week at tales of the games they play, particularly lasts week which was "pop music" centered and involved his patrol gyrating and miming and making up a routine to go along with Girls Aloud "Love Machine". I will never forget the image of my 10 year son leaning over a chair and gyrating his body over it!

I started Slimming World 3 weeks ago in a battle to get rid of steroid and estrogen drug induced weight gain. This means I am actually drinking water, which is no mean feat as it usually makes me vomit.

Talking of vomit, for the first time in 8 years, I had to clean up vomit at 1am on Tuesday morning. Poor Charlie was so ill and I could barely remember what to do as he just doesn't do ill. He spent the whole day in bed with a burning temperature, looking like a ghost and being achey and completely weak but was absolutely fine by Wednesday morning.

Charlie is powering on with his maths now, he finished 1B some time ago and despite his protestations I think he found it too easy. Merry kindly threw in a 2A with her order and then a little while later I realised I needed some other bits and my mum got 2B too for him. I'm going to see if he can do any of 2B today. I ordered a load of English Magic Topics workbooks yesterday from Amazon. I am sure he is more than capable of doing them, but I thought we'd better check in and make sure he can. I don't even bother with spelling practice anymore as it seems so unnecessary with him, but will find a test for his age on the net and do a quick check to make myself feel better.

He's doing SL2 every day now and decided that he needs to double up some days and do weekends too because he keeps taking time off! He's back to doing EC as well, a couple of English and Maths games a day and anything else he wants to do. He is completely into Languages and loves the French and German on there, so I must make an effort to do something with him, being as I did both for GCSE and loved both.

Also doing a DWN each day too, mainly for the handwriting practice, but also because he loves drawing so much. He's been making paper airplanes out of every bit of paper he can find after learning how to make fancy ones with the kit Merry and the girls got him for his birthday. He even made one with £10 note my parents gave him yesterday! Receipts don't escape either.